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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6468377" data-attributes="member: 5834">What do you even mean by a sandbox experience? Constant tactical combat is not a sandbox experience. Absent role-playing, you're not doing much but shifting numbers. Plenty of video games accomplish that aspect of the game fine.I weave a tale better than any video game I've yet played. My players tend to agree. I've made players fight at the table over imaginary women. I've made a player a nearly leap across the table and physically attack me in anger while playing character. I've made players love their characters. It is not at all because of tactical combat, but because I made them feel like heroes in an epic tale with all the tools available in D&D, role-playing was a major aspect.How you could have fun playing a king or a knight without the story elements that make those titles mean something is beyond me. I don't see the fun in it. To each his own. I would grow weary of "sandbox" combat. I must have role-playing elements to feel like I'm playing a real character rather than a set of numbers. Do you even bother naming your character? Or do you choose names like video game players choose since it doesn't matter? Your character says "DaveDash17" or "Screwthemallhard4" like I see in many fantasy video games. I'm assuming you don't even bother with a background of any kind? If your group is happy doing that, I guess who can complain. Sounds boring as all hell though. I can't even imagine what your gaming stories are like. Must be all about lucky dice rolls. Most of ours are amusing role-playing anecdotes.</blockquote>

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